The Addams Family is more sophisticated and wickedly funny. Inspired by Charles Addams's New Yorker cartoons, The Addams Family is fiendishly funny, with a dead-on cast that indelibly embodies Addams's characters. In "Morticia, The Sculptress, Volume One If The Munsters was a traditional family sitcom as reimagined by Famous Monsters of Filmland magazine, The Addams Family is a macabre twist on Father Knows Best. As Gomez might exclaim: "Capital!" --Donald Liebenson The Addams Family ? Macabre humor in each episode reverses average, expected logic.